Policy & Political Action

Letters

As you know, the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) has been fiercely advocating for transformative changes to Ontario's social assistance system for at least a decade. Ontario's registered nurses (RNs), nurse practitioners (NPs), and nursing students see every day the devastating health and social impacts of income insecurity, including those caused by dangerously low social assistance rates and an often punitive, hard-to-navigate system.

Thank you for your letter of December 1, 2017 inviting the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) to provide feedback on Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) by December 12, 2017.
Due to the short timeframe related to this submission, RNAO is unable to provide a comprehensive response informed by evidence from the academic literature and our expert members working in a variety of sectors.

I am writing to you in response to your report entitled “Preventing
workplace violence in the health care sector”. RNAO appreciates the
government’s commitment to prevent workplace violence in health care
and recognition of the hazards experienced by nurses and other
health-care providers.

RNAO appreciates your ongoing leadership to improve the health and well-being of all Ontarians through Patients First: Action Plan for Health Care, and the Open Minds, Health Minds: Ontario's Comprehensive Mental Health and Addictions Strategy. We are writing to you today about the need for stable peer support funding for individuals being discharged from psychiatric facilities.

The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) was delighted to acknowledge the 2017 Ontario Budget as a progressive budget.1 Among the measures that RNAO supported was the investment of $26 million over four years to increase awareness of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and how it can be prevented as well expanding support to children, youth and families affected by the disorder.2

As a member of the Correctional Health Care Coalition, the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) was delighted to attend the June 29, 2017 meeting of the Coalition with representatives from the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services (MCSCS) and Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC).